German LGBT : Gay and Lesbian movies from Germany Switzerland and Austria (Deutschland, Österreich Schweiz)
A Cinematographic Anthology 1919-2024
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- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsConrad VeidtLeo ConnardIlse von Tasso-LindTwo male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsWalter SlezakBenjamin ChristensenNora GregorTriangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth BergnerConrad VeidtNora GregorThe young Renée is a bubbly, fun-loving, young woman. She has a very close relationship with her young father, the worse her relationship with her stepmother is.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWilliam DieterleGunnar TolnæsMary JohnsonA young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate and upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsLouise BrooksFritz KortnerFrancis LedererThe rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
- DirectorLeontine SaganCarl FroelichStarsDorothea WieckHertha ThieleEmilia UndaAt an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsPaula WesselyPaul DahlkeHans NielsenKlaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsLilli PalmerRomy SchneiderTherese GiehseIn a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsMathieu CarrièreMarian SeidowskyBernd TischerIn a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.
- DirectorWerner SchroeterStarsGisela TroweCarla EgererRosemarie HeinikelCollage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music - with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.
- DirectorPeter FleischmannStarsMartin SperrAngela WinklerElse QueckeAbram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.
- DirectorRolf OlsenStarsCurd JürgensAndrea RauCorny CollinsA Hamburg police inspector investigates the crime of a homosexual in a love hotel, and although several guests are suspicious, his thoughts are elsewhere, as his own son lies on the operating table in a hospital, fighting for his life.
- DirectorAlfred VohrerStarsHorst TappertWerner PetersHubert SuschkaRough-and-ready vice detective Perrak must follow 1000 leads during the investigation of a transvestite murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage parlor he meets industrialist wife Claire Imhoff.
- DirectorUwe BrandnerStarsRolf BeckerHannes FuchsHelmut BraschSet in the near future, Brandner's village is populated by emotionless citizens, kept in place with pills and pleasures. Once a year the wealthy people arrive to hunt in a nearby area, where the villagers are never allowed. One day a new citizen begins hunting illegally out of a simple desire to do something different. A strange, homosexual gamekeeper spots him, and the two begin an affair. They attempt to stage an uprising but are shot down.
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsBernd FeuerhelmBerryt BohlenErnst KuchlingA harsh but deeply sympathetic sociological essay film about gay life in Berlin in a time of secrecy and oppression, with no diegetic sound and constant narration, following Daniel's unsatisfying immersion into gay society.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsLou CastelEddie ConstantineMarquard BohmOn a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and so they still wait and try to make the best out of the situation. When the material finally arrives all folks involved into the film find themselves in a weird situation. Jealousy, competition and despair are ruling. Nobody seems to be able to break through this atmosphere, so they all still try to make the best out of the situation, but this is probably not the way to finish the film.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsRon RandellHanna SchygullaKatrin SchaakeWhity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and the disabled Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
- DirectorRobert van AckerenStarsMascha RabbenGabriele LafariUlli LommelWhile out on the town in Berlin, Raymond sees and falls for Harlis, a star of a troupe of lesbian cabaret strippers. Attracted to a man for the first time, Harlis leaves her long time girlfriend and dance partner. Overwhelmed by jealousy and anger, his brother (Peter) and his ex-fiancee (Ria) are determined to sabotage this budding romance.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsMargit CarstensenHanna SchygullaKatrin SchaakeA troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsHarry BaerIngrid CavenHanna KöhlerThe story of the legendary King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886), his opera interest and friendship with theatre personalities such as Richard Wagner and Joseph Kainz, and at the same time a reflection of the German 1800s.
- DirectorLothar LambertWolfram ZobusStarsLouis AntoniusClaudja BarryArnold BauerAn African-American GI goes to Berlin and faces prejudice.
- DirectorTabea BlumenscheinUlrike OttingerStarsTabea BlumenscheinWally BuschValeska GertThe surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsRainer Werner FassbinderPeter ChatelKarlheinz BöhmA suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsMargarethe von TrottaMatthias HabichRüdiger KirschsteinA countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsKurt RaabMargit CarstensenHelen VitaA famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowErnst HannawaldWerner SchwuchowThomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsCihan AnasaiDagmar BeiersdorfBeate HasenauA clerk ends up in a movie theatre after an evening fight with his girlfriend and his motherly, dominant sister, with whom he lives. A film is running there that describes a situation that is strikingly similar to his: A young civil servant who lives with his dominant mother falls for a young Turkish guy, breaks with his previous life and his long-term fiancee, who works in the same office, moves in with the Turk. A new consciousness awakes in the mind of the clerk;
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsTina EngelSilvia ReizeKatharina ThalbachThree people rob a bank to help a daycare center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner is identified, and police suspect that Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten; he refuses. They try Christa's friend Ingrid, who tries to help, but the school rejects the money. When tragedy strikes Werner, Hans helps Christa bolt to a collective in Portugal; when Ingrid visits her there, their relationship makes the collective nervous, so she returns to Germany and stops living in hiding. The police are still looking for her and so is a witness to the robbery: bank clerk Lena, whose interest brings Christa's second awakening.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsVolker SpenglerIngrid CavenGottfried JohnA transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.
- DirectorTabea BlumenscheinUlrike OttingerStarsTabea BlumenscheinMonika von CubeRoswitha JanzSeveral women, all bored with their menial lives, join a lesbian pirate ship and set sail on a kooky adventure.
- DirectorUlrike OttingerStarsTabea BlumenscheinLutzeMagdalena MontezumaA woman presented as a "trinkerin" is having a special tour in Berlin. She bought herself a single-way ticket and will drink everywhere she can.
- DirectorUwe FrießnerStarsThomas KufahlSlavica RankovicHenry LutzeA 17 year old Berlin boy turns prostitute and petty thief. Despite the attempts of a social worker to help, the boy runs into real trouble when a burglary goes awry.
- DirectorFrank RipplohStarsFrank RipplohBernd BroaderupOrpha TerminFrank Ripploh is a rascal: he is a shaggy-haired, bearded teacher who is gay and has a very active sex life plus an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life separate from his personal life, though sometimes he corrects student papers in public toilets as he waits to score. He cruises constantly. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. Bernd is attentive and caring, but Frank gets bored with him and continues his polymorphous perverse ways. How long will Bernd and Frank tolerate each other's habits, and how long can Frank keep his sexual orientation outside of the classroom? Things "come to a head" (no pun intended) during Berlin's annual Queen's Ball and the morning after.
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsUlrike SchirmStefan MencheLothar LambertFour mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual satisfaction in the urban jungle of West Berlin.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBrad DavisFranco NeroJeanne MoreauA handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
- DirectorAlexandra von GroteStarsGabriele OsburgUte CremerBarbara StanekAnna hits the road after her lesbian affair with Regine ends.
- DirectorRobert van AckerenStarsGudrun LandgrebeMathieu CarrièreHanns ZischlerEva, an upper-class housewife, frustratingly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who turns out to be a call boy, as well. Consequently, she moves into his penthouse, large enough for both to offer their services separately.
- DirectorMartin RipkensHans StempelStarsKlaus AdlerStuart WolfeChrista MaerkerIn West Berlin, two men, a teacher and a bookseller, have a long standing gay relationship. While they are secure and sucessful their relationship is waning.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsHanna SchygullaAngela WinklerPeter StriebeckOlga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsAngie StardustJayne CountyJudith FlexA film about the teeming flip side of life in Berlin centered on eccentric characters of almost every imaginable sexual orientation, or disorientation.
- DirectorChristoph BöllStarsWieland SamolakGerhard OlschewskiRenate MuhriA homosexuell, crazy guy tries to be "normal." So he begins to search a girl. He first of all starts a membership in a sports club as a short disdance runner. But his results are very poor. Suddenly he saw an other member of the Club, a girl, and starts a affair with her...
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsLothar LambertDagmar BeiersdorfHans MarquardtA mousey, mild-mannered, mid-thirties bank clerk visits a cabaret and discovers his taste for drag and for the club's techie.
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsLotti HuberJoaquin La HabanaFolkert MilsterHorror Vacui - The fear of the void.
- DirectorHelmer von LützelburgStarsBillie ZöcklerDirk BachBarbara ValentinTeenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsAlbert HeinsUlrike SchirmSusanne StahlA West Berlin couple hopes to solve their marital problems while on vacation in Spain. Instead, the tensions between the neglected and misunderstood woman and her annoyed and otherwise unsatisfied husband escalate soon afterwards. She starts an affair with her Persian masseur, he falls in love with a mute toilet attendant, whom he brings back to Berlin and takes in with himself and his two pubescent children, while the woman moves in with her masseur. But even the new constellations quickly get into crisis.
- DirectorAlexandra von GroteStarsGabriele OsburgChristiane MilletDanièle DelormeTwo women fall in love in nazi-occupied France, and must fight to survive the war. A task made more difficult as one is a jew on the run from Germany.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerHans Christian BlechArmin Mueller-StahlSet during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
- DirectorMarcel GislerStarsRudolf NadlerDina LeipzigLutz DeisingerAbout a trio who take shelter in a friend's apartment while he is away for awhile. One of the trio is Lola who teaches French on the side, maintains an out-of-sight hairstyle, and has a 10-year-old son. Another of the trio is a homosexual who supports himself by playing his flute on the street or reading to elderly women. The last friend in the group is Max, whose parents are sending him steady installments of cash to pay for non-existent studies; it seems Max is a writer waiting for inspiration to hit. In the meantime, he and Lola are an item. In the background is West Berlin itself, with its cafes, bars, nightclubs, and street life.
- DirectorElfi MikeschMonika TreutStarsMechthild GroßmannUdo KierSheila McLaughlinWanda ist von Berufs wegen grausam. Ihre Spezialitaet: das Erfinden von Fallen fuer ihre Liebhaber/innen. Gregor, der romantische Schwaermer, wird aus seinem Traum gerissen. Justine, die naive Unschuld aus Uebersee, muss lernen, dass auch die Leidenschaft eine Illusion ist. Herr Maehrsch, ein Journalist, will ein Interview mit Wanda und lernt dabei etwas ueber seine verborgenen Wunesche. Nur Caren weiss, worum es geht. Deshalb spielt sie auch bald keine Rolle mehr. (aus dem Prorammheft Max-Ophuels-Preis 1995) "Aufregenderes, subversiveres, seltsameres Kino wird man so bald bei uns nicht mehr zu sehen bekommen." (H.C. Blumenberg, die Zeit)
- DirectorWieland SpeckStarsSigurd RachmanRainer StreckerAndy LucasFelix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become suspicious, Thomas decides to try and flee to the West.
- DirectorWerner SchroeterStarsMagdalena MontezumaMostefa DjadjamAntonio OrlandoA mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
- DirectorFrank RipplohStarsFrank RipplohChristine NeubauerUdo SchenkEight years after Taxi Zum Klo, Frank is still up his same old tricks. In fact, the hustler he brought home last night tied him up and robbed him. His mother is pressuring him to marry, and the girl he's been passing off to her as his girlfriend--has a thing for the same guy he does.
- DirectorChristoph SchaubStarsDaniel BuserKriton KalaitzidesLilo WickiDavid has got himself pretty well organized, he's got friends, jobs - not bad. Broods a little ,but who doesn't. Occasional political activity. He never really grasped why Wendel, his best friend for years, had left. Just took off. The fool. Emigrated. Bach n the seventies, they had shared their lives, their love, their apartment and sometimes even the same woman. And now, what happens? Wendel comes back, out oft he blue. They spend the day together.
- DirectorMonika TreutStarsIna BlumMarcelo UrionaGad KleinA reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair with a stripper from an all-women's club.
- DirectorHeiner CarowStarsMatthias FreihofDagmar ManzelDirk KummerA young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.
- DirectorUlrike OttingerStarsDelphine SeyrigIrm HermannGillian ScaliciA group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
- DirectorJochen HickStarsPeter SennerGuilherme de PáduaYves JansenFrank, a (HIV infected) former Lufthansa steward, goes back to Rio from Germany with a film crew to look for Mario, a young man with whom he had a one night stand. Before Mario departed the morning after, he left a message scrawled in soap on the bathroom mirror: 'Welcome to the AIDS club'. Frank and his director hire a fast talking hustler named José (Guilherme di Padua) to help them to find Mario who seems alway to have just left whenever they arrive. Via Appia is the nickname of a Rio district where male prostitutes hang out...
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsSolomon PerelMarco HofschneiderRené HofschneiderA boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
- DirectorCarl AndersenStarsSoledad MarceignacFrank KhunneDavid HollmanYoung girl becomes Alice in dreamland during menstruation. Wild dreams and nightmares about sexuality, vampirism, death, obsessions and other bizarre things.
- DirectorMarcel GislerStarsAndreas HerderDina LeipzigCyrille Rey-CoquaisTheo, an attractive German call boy, markets himself to other men in the personal ads of Berlin papers and leads an otherwise quiet life across the hall from Marie. Marie and Paul share an apartment that Marie pays for by working at a record store. A would-be writer, Paul spends his days sleeping or staring at the blank sheet of paper in his typewriter. After Paul leaves Marie for what he calls her "grotesque mediocrity," the protracted silence from across the hallway concerns Theo. Finally, on returning home one day, he observes that Marie's door is half open and ventures into her apartment to see if she is okay. Marie is devastated by Paul's departure and Theo takes it upon himself to coax her back to life. Strangely enough, he finds that she also awakens in him a desire for life that he had lost or given away to the countless men with whom he shares his body. When the two become intimate, Theo feels -- perhaps for the first time in a very long time -- that he is loved. Paul's untimely return signals the end of Theo's relationship with Marie and his life becomes once again a contrast of furtive rendezvous and bleak isolation.
- DirectorDagmar BeiersdorfStarsBaduriImke BarnstedtRenate BertholdJulchen is the "feminine" (transvestite) and definitely motherly half of a couple of homosexual men, the "co-fathers" of a pleasant part-Moroccan girl. The girl has been told that her mother is dead, but Julchen knows this is not true.
- DirectorUrsula PuerrerA. Hans ScheirlDietmar SchipekStarsSusana HelmayrUrsula PuerrerA. Hans ScheirlFlaming Ears is a pop sci-fi lesbian fantasy feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive burned-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled lives of three women - Volley, Nun and Spy.
- DirectorElke GötzStarsKarla SchlenderZimbo ZimmermannHilde lives with her mother. The two are on their own. So that living together doesn't get too boring, they have come up with a game: Hilde is the king and her mother is what the king needs, whether she is a cook, maid or queen mother. But when Hilde falls in love with the sausage seller Gisela, their game gets mixed up. Mother is no longer all that Hilde needs .
- DirectorChristof VorsterStarsWerner StockerLeslie MaltonHelmut VogelTom, married, 35, lives in Los Angeles where he runs a successful software company. The reason for his trip to Switzerland is the death of his younger brother, Philipp, whom he has not seen for years. As he is the only parent, he must liquidate the estate. Without enthusiasm, Tom begins to tidy up Philipp's chaotic apartment. He falls in love with Christine, Philipp's former friend, and ignores the bizarre events that occur that apparently have to do with his brother's death. One day, Christine disappears without leaving a trace. It is only then that he ceases to be indifferent. Tom wants to find her at all costs .
- DirectorFlorian GärtnerStarsJasper BrandisFlorian GärtnerPeter A. WernerMax ist vor zwei Jahren nach Berlin gezogen. Noch immer hat er sich in der neuen Heimat nicht einleben können; Einsamkeit, Unzufriedenheit mit seinem Studium, verdrängtes Heimweh und das Ende einer Affäre mit seinem Traummann stürzen ihn vollends in Verwirrung. Mühsam versucht er, einen Ausweg aus seiner Orientierungslosigkeit zu finden. In klaren, ruhigen Schwarz-Weiß-Bildern beschreibt der Film Max' Leben in dieser "Zwischen-Welt" von Übergang, Entwicklung und Wandel, zwischen Heimat und der großen weiten Welt, zwischen dem Traum von der großen Liebe und den ganz alltäglichen Sehnsüchten nach Geborgenheit.
- DirectorMichael StockStarsWolfram HaackStefan LaarmannMichael StockThe story is set soon after the reunification of West and East Germany, and is about the disintegrating relationship between Jockel a political activist and Stefan a heroin junkie, and their involvement with a bisexual Micha. A 2nd plot line is concerned with Micha's young son Sascha, and his life in a rundown world of drugs and poverty. His fascination with the creepy, exhibitionist puppeteer Firlefanz, whose grotesque puppets enact a gay fairy tale paralleling the relationship of Stefan and Jockel. Central to the disintegration of these characters is the drug dealer Ingolf, who 'pulls their strings' with heroin, instead of puppet wires.
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsTil SchweigerKatja RiemannJoachim KrólThrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.
- DirectorDoris DörrieStarsMaria SchraderPierre Sanoussi-BlissMichael von AuOn the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening classes on dying, so it seems fitting that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a Black, gay, self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?
- DirectorAlexander SchererAngelina MaccaroneStarsJulia RichterNina WenigerAlexandra WilckeYoung Mausi (a nickname) leaves her hometown - a very small provincetown in northwestern Germany - to live in the city of Hamburg. Being about 18 years old she has just finished school and seeks her freedom away from home. She knows she loves women but never dared to live accordingly. In Hamburg she soon finds a lover and a good friend, too, and the strength to face the narrow-minded people at home. After struggling with it for some time she returns for a visit to tell at least her mother and best friend.
- DirectorJoseph VilsmaierStarsAndré EisermannDana VávrováBen BeckerIn the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds. Elias falls in platonic love with Elsbeth, the sister of Peter, a neighbor's son, who has longstanding homosexual feelings towards Elias. After Elsbeth, out of frustration from Elias' not returning her love and instead being obsessed with music, chooses to be impregnated and marries someone else who lose love she had spurned for Elias. The village burns and most villagers, including Elsbeth, evacuate to the closest town. Elias remains behind. A music master with the official task to register all the organs in the country arrives at the burnt village. There he discovers Elias' prodigy and invites him to an organ challenge in the town where the villagers relocated. Elias performs there and amazes the audience which includes Elsbeth. She is unable to meet with Elias before he is rushed to a waiting carriage. She calls to him and he hears her, but it is too late. Elias is taken on a brief tour by his mentors but soon returns to his spiritual site near the burnt village where he takes his own life (with Peter by his side), having decided to not sleep anymore. Elsbeth later returns there, a widow with a young daughter, hoping to find Elias but instead discovers his spiritual site has disappeared.
- DirectorRolf SilberStarsChristoph M. OhrtCarin C. TietzeTim BergmannChristoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop.
- DirectorMartin WalzStarsUdo SamelPeter LohmeyerIris BerbenThe plot takes place in New York, and in the present. In a Hotel called "Quicky" a professor blackmails a student of his into having sex with him. But when the professor puts on a condom, the carnivorous condom bites off his penis and disappears. Detective Mackaroni who gets the case thinks that the college girl just bit off her teacher's penis! Mackaroni goes to the motel himself to check out the crime scene, in the lobby he finds a gigolo named Bill and he asks him to follow him to crime room, there the two men attempt to have sex when they are suddenly interrupted by the attack of a killer condom.
- DirectorSandra NettelbeckStarsRegula GrauwillerJasmin TabatabaiNatascha BubThe entangled love affairs between a group of Germans in their twenties provides the basis for this sudsy drama. During the course of the story, the friends attempt to cope with their feelings about commitment and to sort out their feelings about each other. Radio host Robert is living with Sara whom he plans to marry if they can ever leave their busy work schedules long enough to plan it. Nick, a budding actor has just returned from New York after getting tossed out by his latest girl friend. He begins courting Sara and his old flame Katherine, Sara's boss, simultaneously. Nina, a waitress copes with a female cab driver and poor Felix, brother of Nick, is too dumpy and goofy to have a girl friend.
- DirectorDagmar HirtzStarsCharlotte SchwabAnn-Kathrin KramerPeter LerchbaumerSuccessful management consultant Catherine must face Maren as her new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Catherine's career. Despite all circumstances they work perfectly well as a team--and fall in love. Catherine, a married mother of teenage twins, is shaken up by the new situation. Is she willing to live her life with Maren, an open lesbian?
- DirectorAngelina MaccaroneStarsKati StüdemannChantal De FreitasIsabella ParkinsonNabou, an Afro-German slacker, desperatly wants to win back her club kid ex-girlfriend Katja. Nabou becomes a housekeeper for Katja's neighbor, Kim, who is a workaholic that is striving to become a partner in an advertising agency. A refreshing romantic comedy with the ingredients of a classic lesbian feature: whimsical sexiness, mistaken identity, and general madness and mayhem.
- DirectorA. Hans ScheirlStarsSuzie KrügerLeonora Rogers-WrightA. Hans ScheirlDust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of his/her own memories and a sense of understanding. S/he travels from the Planet of White Dust where war is constant, to the Planet of Blood and Swelling, a hybrid of his/her father's body.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsChristoph WaltzHeio von StettenAnn-Kathrin KramerFollows a divorced couple and their separate, cyclonic sexual escapades, and all of the spin offs.
- DirectorHermine HuntgeburthStarsGötz GeorgeChristian RedlJeanette HainZobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of thieves who eke out an existence as pickpockets. After a botched job, Karl becomes unable to work, forcing Zobel and Lizzie to seek out a new partner. Lizzie recruits Rudolf, the boyishly charming town misfit. Reluctantly, Zobel allows Rudolf to join them but warns him to never break the golden rule: "No exchanging of bodily fluids within the team." This dictum becomes increasingly difficult to live by as Lizzie's cravings and Zobel's own passions toward Rudolf intensify. Eventually, the golden rule is broken by Lizzie...and then again by Zobel (unbeknownst to Lizzie, of course). An intricate love triangle soon develops amongst the three that is shaped by deception, desire, and betrayal.
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsHeiko BehrensMichael SittnerAnatoli JalninSort-of remake of "Was Sie nie über Frauen wissen wollten/Wilde Weiber GmbH"), with crazy transvestites instead of crazy women.
- DirectorMax FärberböckStarsMaria SchraderJuliane KöhlerJohanna WokalekIn 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsKai SchumannFriedel von WangenheimBen BeckerThe life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
- DirectorKutlug AtamanStarsGandi MukliBaki DavrakErdal Yildiz17-year old Murat from Turkey, living in Berlin, Germany, slowly discovers his homosexuality. His older brother Osman, head of the family since the father's death, wants him to finally lose his virginity (in a heterosexual manner) and thus causes Murat to run away. In a bar, Murat meets Lola, who has some things to tell about him.
- DirectorBen RedingDominik RedingStarsSascha BackhausSimon GoertsSandra BorgmannThe film (the third of the Reding brothers) is about a German teenager following his identity crisis. The boy, transformed by the usual down-trodden socio-economic conditions of contemporary Europe, becomes a skin head, following the first one's lead. On the other side he befriends with a leftist (a punk) who is gay. This causes more and more conflicts which eventually leads to an atrocious end for the punk. The film offers scenes of homophobic violence by skinheads, and the whole relationship between the skinhead and gay movements (in Germany gay skinheads represent a substantial subculture).
- DirectorAyse PolatStarsYekta ArmanErcüment BalakogluÖzlem BlumeSenay (Blume) is a willful eleven year old girl in Hamburg who's Turkish father has just died. The only friend responding to the news about her father is a gay Turkish cabaret singer, Zeki (Siir Eloglu). Together they travel through Europe in search of the orphan girl's mother, Cicek (Fecht), who left at childbirth and whom Zeki represents as Senay's aunt.
- DirectorAndreas StruckStarsTatjana BlacherSebastian BlombergWerner HeinrichmöllerIn post-Cold War Berlin, a lonely security guard meets an pretty insurance clerk and they begin an affair that relieves their mundane lives while the reunification of Germany changes their surroundings at a frantic pace. But when a wandering thief and sometime hustler enters their lives, it sets off a complicated love triangle that becomes increasingly volatile.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsBibiana BeglauRichard KropfMartin WuttkeThe riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
- DirectorXavier KollerStarsUlrich NoethenHeike MakatschJasmin TabatabaiThe summerly adventures of Kurt (Tucholsky) and girl friend staying in a Swedish castle whilst the political changes in Germany in the thirties.
- DirectorMaris PfeifferStarsJulia RichterNaomi KraussOliver StokowskiThe life of the respectable career woman Kathrin is turned upside down when she falls in love with her son's teacher. The two start a relationship.
- DirectorPierre Sanoussi-BlissStarsPierre Sanoussi-BlissThilo AckermannMichael AndeAfter Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV-positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, then promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin (its buildings, cars, people, and culture), Sam develops a "family" for the new millennium, for the new generation of post-drug-cocktail AIDS victims. The fragile "family" he forms includes his on-again/off-again boyfriend Rainer and his best friend Bastl with his latest fling Mike. Like the old, schmaltzy East German songs which Sam is recording, the sweet innocence of the characters struggles to prevail, the characters' misfortunes notwithstanding.
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsNicole Ansari-CoxEva HerzigRalf BauerSandra and Iris are experiencing a down point in their relationship and decide that having a baby is what's required. While Sandra in uncertain, Iris locates a potential father, Antonio, a workmate of Sandra's. What Iris doesn't know is that chemistry is developing between Sandra and Antonio.
- DirectorMichael HerbigStarsMichael HerbigChristian TramitzMarie BäumerThe hilarious adventures of two best friends, Apache chief Abahachi and cowboy Ranger, in the Wild West.
- DirectorMaris PfeifferStarsHans Werner MeyerTatjana BlacherMatthias WalterA straight teacher, married with two kids, falls head over heels for a new male colleague. They begin the titular unusual affair.
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsBev StroganovIchgola AndrogynOvo MaltineBosom buddies BeV StroganoV, Ovo Maltine, Ichgola Androgyn and Tima die Göttliche are four Berlin drag queens who met in the mid 1980s. These four queens became Germany's most popular drag performers and have been busy fertilizing the German cultural scene. Besides being performers, they are also political activists - in AIDS awareness, anti-gay violence, the sex workers movement and the struggle against the extreme right and racism. The film tells their story.
- DirectorSven Unterwaldt Jr.StarsMichael LottSven WalserAnna BöttcherA player in a famous orchestra finds sexual experiences with a Russian opera singer, which he enjoys much because his wife has just left due to the fact that he has purchased a porno movie. The orchestra player gets known to his neighbour, a gay man having also relationship troubles, and together they are trying hard to find a way how to go on with their lifes.
- DirectorBarbara TeufelStarsJana StraulinoUrsula RennekeKatja DanowskiOn Labour Day 1987, a riot broke out in Kreuzberg which gave this west-Berlin district its legendary reputation - a reputation which has prevailed right up to the present day. During the night of 1 May, the Berlin police used force to try and break up a street party - and triggered off a riot in which old and young, Turks, Germans, anarchists and ordinary citizens battled shoulder to shoulder to repel state authority.The riot ended with the police in retreat, a supermarket in flames and one more problem for Berlin's Senator for Internal Affairs. How was he to keep a district in check when the inhabitants were clearly hell-bent on protesting against the Queen's and Ronald Reagan's visits as well as the International Monetary Fund conference? Kreuzberg's anarchists included a group of women living in an apartment in Ritterstrasse, or "Knight Street". These "female knights", as they were known, fought any and all manifestations of patriarchy with exactly the same verve they applied to organizing resistance to the IMF meeting. And then: the wall came down, the world changed and nothing was the way it used to be anymore.
- DirectorYüksel YavuzStarsCagdas BozkurtNecmettin ÇobanogluLeroy DelmarBaran (Cagdas Bozkurt) is a young Kurd who was sent to Hamburg after his parents, who had helped Kurdish rebels, were betrayed and subsequently killed by the Turkish militia. Now that Baran is 16, he is no longer allowed to stay in Germany and faces the bleak prospect of getting deported back. Baran meets Chernor (Leroy Delmar), an African boy who has the same problem and traffics drugs to make some money. Chernor is openly gay and their friendship has sexual overtones from the beginning. Baran also has very little interest in girls, even though a marriage might solve his immigration-related legal trouble. Things get even more complicated when Baran spots the traitor of his family and wants to kill him. However, the man pleads for his life and Baran spares him. After this act of forgiveness, Cherno and Baran have sex together for the first time, making it clear to Baran that his interest in Cherno goes beyond friendship. Finally, both Cherno and Baran, who had made a desperate attempt to free Cherno, are arrested by the police.